Immigrant Youth

The Immigrant Youth Coalition is an undocumented queer youth led grassroots that fights for immigrant justice and against criminalization.

[Human Rights First @humanrights1st]

GREAT NEWS: Our client Josue* is finally FREE after being detained for more than 157 days at the Adelanto Detention Facility in California. #FreedomForDetainedRefugees

[Robyn Barnard @robynyakira]

@RAICESTEXAS @MigrantFreedom @Immigrantpower helped raise the funds needed to secure his freedom. We are eternally grateful for their invaluable support to our asylum seeking clients! #FreedomForDetainedRefugees

[Human Rights First @humanrights1st]

Thanks to a collaboration between our team and @RAICESTexas, @MigrantFreedom, @ImmigrantPower, and @Lathamwatkins, we’re thrilled to report that Josue* received bond and can now seek asylum in the United States.

Thank you for the support that made this victory possible.

[Ella Baker Center @ellabakercenter]

Let's get started! What is #SB136? Introduced by @Scott_Wiener, amends Penal Code 667.5, removing a sentence enhancement that adds an additional year of incarceration for each prior prison term or felony county jail term regardless of the length. #KeepFamiliesTogether

[CURB @CURBprisons]

Join us in raising awareness around #SB136, which erases a 1 year sentencing enhancement that has been ineffective at protecting public safety, wastes public resources, and damages families & communities! Please share and retweet starting at NOON today!

[FUEL-FamiliesUnitedToEndLWOP @FUEL_EndLWOP]

#SB136
#KeepFamiliesTogether
#RISEAct

@SenSusanRubio
@CASenCaballero
@Senator_Hurtado
@HenrySternCA
@Portantino
@SenatorUmberg
@Steve_Glazer
@GeneralRoth
@Bob4Senator

[Ella Baker Center @ellabakercenter]

At its core, SB 136 will advance racial justice and fairness and help keep families together.
#SB136 will restore balance in our courtrooms by ensuring more Californians feel empowered to take their case to trial.
#KeepFamiliesTogether

[Ella Baker Center @ellabakercenter]

Black and Latinx communities are disproportionately impacted by sentencing enhancements. #SB136, @Scott_Wiener @HollyJMitchell, is a necessary move to undo unjust and unnecessary prejudicial tough on crime laws. #KeepFamiliesTogether

[Eunisses Hernandez @EunissesH]

#SB136 repeals a one-year sentence enhancement & moves the state further away from wasteful spending on incarceration. Will you send a letter to our target Senate members, asking them to support #SB136 when it hits the Senate floor? https://t.co/PxlszvCq05 #KeepFamiliesTogether

[ACLU of Northern CA @ACLU_NorCal]

Family reunification should be the priority, not adding an extra year to every new felony. #SB136 will allow CA to divest from expensive & ineffective prisons, and instead invest in jobs, schools, and health of our communities. Vote YES on #SB136 #KeepFamiliesTogether

[Immigrant Youth @Immigrantpower]

Children of incarcerated parents face a host of disadvantages, including monetary hardship and loss of housing. Adding one year for a prior conviction extends these hardships and family separation. Vote YES on #SB136 #KeepFamiliesTogether @Steve_Glazer
@GeneralRoth
@Bob4Senator

[CURB @CURBprisons]

When a parent is incarcerated, a child loses a caregiver & a breadwinner. #SB136 will repeal the 1-year enhancement that has been applied more than 15,000 times w increasing public safety and separating thousands of families. #KeepFamiliesTogether @Scott_Wiener @HollyJMitchell

[CURB @CURBprisons]

The incarceration of a mother is especially disruptive for a child. Even adding just one year to their sentence extends traumatizing family separation. You can end this family separation. Vote YES on #SB136 #KeepFamiliesTogether #RISEAct

[Immigrant Youth @Immigrantpower]

Repealing an ineffective one-year enhancement will save hundreds of millions of $$$, reduce prison & jail populations, mitigate racial & gender disparities in incarceration, & end the double punishment for prior convictions. Vote YES on #SB136 #KeepFamiliesTogether @Portantino

[Immigrant Youth @Immigrantpower]

The incarceration of a mother is especially disruptive for a child. Even adding just one year to their sentence extends traumatizing family separation. You can end cruel family separation. Vote YES on #SB136 #KeepFamiliesTogether #RISEAct

[Immigrant Youth @Immigrantpower]

Thank you @Scott_Wiener and @HollyJMitchell for leading on ending mass incarceration and repealing cruel and wasteful sentencing enhancements that hurt families, hurt communities and cripple the state budget. #SB136 #KeepFamiliesTogether #RISEAct

[Youth Justice Coalition @YouthJusticeLA]

Black women are disproportionately criminalized 4 survival. Black immigrants are 3x more likely to face deportation.

Take action to #FreeLiyah, a Black immigrant survivor from Ethiopia who's fighting deportation bc of self-defense.

https://t.co/Jyb6O8pkqe

#SurvivedAndPunished

[bruno✨ @xblu_jay]

Donate + share to help Ephraim fight for his freedom!

Ephraim fled thousands of miles from Nigeria to seek refuge in the U.S. He has been imprisoned at the adelanto detention center for 208 DAYS! NOBODY deserves this!

Support Black refugees + migrants!

https://t.co/7ftFSTINlo

[bruno✨ @xblu_jay]

@IC4IJ @Immigrantpower
@BAJItweet @ConMijente @UndocuBlack @PowerDignity @BLMLA @DSA_LosAngeles @CIYJA @MigrantFreedom @occupyicela @IceOutOfLA @ImmDef @Appolition @NationalBailOut @FianzaFund

[CA Immigrant Youth @CIYJA]

NEW CALL INFO: Please call this number and demand they stop the bus Samuel is on #FreeSamuel